What would stop a crime-insurance provider of other rights-protection agency from defrauding someone, i.e. charging him for a service and never rendering? What would stop the owners of this firm from taking the patrons' money and leaving?
What would stop a person from defrauding someone, i.e. charging him for a service and never rendering? What would stop the owners of this firm from taking the patrons' money and leaving?
Where there is no property there is no justice; a proposition as certain as any demonstration in Euclid
Fools! not to see that what they madly desire would be a calamity to them as no hands but their own could bring
A protection service.
well, thats then, glad we sorted it
:-)
You didn't answer my question: What would stop a crime-insurance provider or (misspelled of in OP) other rights-protection agency from defrauding someone, i.e. charging him for a service and never rendering? What would stop the owners of this firm from taking the patrons' money and leaving? Who's going to protect someone from his protectors?
Individualist:What would stop a crime-insurance provider of other rights-protection agency from defrauding someone, i.e. charging him for a service and never rendering?
You mean like the government?
I don't know what other people would do, but if my crime-insurance provider defrauded me of a small amount I would simply take my business to one of their competitors. If it was a large amount I would take the story to the media and potentially ruin that company. Depending on how the courts were set up, you could also take them to court.
liberty student: You mean like the government?
Yes.
The only difference between our current scenario and the scenario that the original poster outlined is that the government is a monopoly and that fraudulant protector would not be a monopoly. Therefore, the second scenario is preferable because you can switch protectors without switching locations.
If I wrote it more than a few weeks ago, I probably hate it by now.
Other protection agencies? Bounty hunters? Angry mob with rifles? Take your pick.
I think it's quite reasonable to expect that a protection service company would have to build a certain level of reputation and trust before it starts getting a lot business.
If I hear not allowed much oftener; said Sam, I'm going to get angry.
J.R.R.Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
liberty student:You mean like the government?
'Men do not change, they unmask themselves' - Germaine de Stael
Natalie: Other protection agencies? Bounty hunters? Angry mob with rifles? Take your pick. I think it's quite reasonable to expect that a protection service company would have to build a certain level of reputation and trust before it starts getting a lot business.
*bump*
Theft is also a loss. And in life and business, you take your lumps and move on. No one ever got rich trying to recover a loss.